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Lyssa Greymoon

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  1. Anytime you're away from something for a few years, it's going to take some time to get back into it. Stick with it and soon enough you'll get the hang of things again. Things can be frustrating, but it ain't the space shuttle. Hang around, ask some questions and get some help when you need it. You'll be back up to speed in no time.

    Turn off advanced lighting in your graphics preferences, you might be surprised at how well it can run on a fairly modest computer.

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  2. 6 hours ago, Fauve Aeon said:

    My mask for hobby work is a P100 but good luck getting filters right now if you didn’t already have extras. 😑

    Good luck getting any kind of mask, as far as I can tell they sold out weeks ago and there aren’t any in the consumer supply chain, they’ve all been diverted to hospitals and first responders. Around here bandanas sold out instantly as soon as there was a hint of the CDC reversing itself on masks. The times I’ve been out a good percentage of people have been wearing something. I guess around half.

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  3. 12 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    If you came to me weighing $6T in government programs, 20% unemployment and the host of other woes we're predicted to encounter against those 20,000 lives, I'd certainly pause a long time before answering.

    That's 20,000 lives as of yesterday. It's not we could get 20,000 more deaths, it's we'd already have 20,000 more deaths.

  4. 3 hours ago, Dano Seale said:

    Sweden has barely passed 2,000 deaths, you really believe China has only had 4,000 while the UK is on 18,000 and the US on 44,000? I'd hardly call the "Swedish plan" a failure. "Naive" maybe, "ridiculously optimistic" possibly, but I'll take that over the US figures

    If the United States had Sweden's COVID-19 mortality rate, it wouldn't be 44,000 dead here, it would be more like 64,000. So sure, I wouldn't trade for Sweden's figures.

    2 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    Everything about COVID-19 depends on the tests being accurate, including refutation of Sweden's approach. Is there any data right now that you do find compelling, upon which you can be certain of the rightness of your particular position?

    The accuracy of the antibody tests has been widely questioned. The data is far from perfect, but the New York antibody figure just stands out so far it instantly triggers my "wait what?" reaction. I mean, every day I look at these numbers and it's like 80, 150, 112, 56, 78, 2500, 60... one of these is not like the others. Am I certain of my position, not really, but looking at the data we do have from almost every country on the planet, I'm more confident with erring on the side of caution and rolling up the streets for a couple months than betting there is a massive number of asymptomatic cases that went undetected and business as normal won't kill 12% of the population.

  5. 1 hour ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    Per that story, NYC is now at 21.2% infection rate.

    This hinges on the test being accurate, and New York having more cases of COVID-19 than confirmed cases in the rest of the world combined. I gotta be honest, I do not find that to be a compelling foundation for the Swedish plan. 

     

    1 hour ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    Don't confuse my argument here with my beliefs, as Luna so often does. I'm trying to anticipate the arguments that other people will make in support of Sweden's approach, and I'm able to do so in a way I can't summarily dismiss. I often take the "other" side of arguments, sometimes to check my own logic and sometimes to try to understand others'. I live in a world populated by people who see things far differently than I do. They can't all be wrong. They can't all be nuts. They can't all be bad. They can't all be ignorant. I can, at any moment in time, be any of those things.

    Wishful thinking can be a powerful motivator to believe something, and that's what the Swedish approach looks like to me. I wasn't a biology major, but I did crack open a couple history textbooks in school, and I have a pretty good idea what happens when a disease is introduced to a population with no natural immunity. Finding a reason to do nothing about it is not a great plan. It does sound like a good way to find out what the actual mortality rate is, though.

  6. 40 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    From those suppositions, I can make the argument that doing nothing but informing people of the dangers of socializing will produce an ultimate outcome that's comparable or better than the most draconian suppression measures.

    Countries that were proactive before it got out of control seem to be doing much better. The prospects of keeping it under control by identifying infected individuals, effective contact tracing and testing seem to be considerably better than having Coronavirus parties to gain immunity. Sweden has almost ten times the COVID-19 mortality of South Korea and is halfway to catching China. I don't think it's going too far out on a limb to say Sweden's clever plan is made of fail.

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  7. 5 hours ago, belindacarson said:

    There is scientific evidence that shows "climate change" has happened before and will happen again.

    One of the cool things we can do with science is figure out why things happen. I haven't watched Michael Moore's movie, but we have plenty of good, hard science about what's happening and why that can't be casually dismissed.

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  8. 58 minutes ago, Jennifer Boyle said:

    It feels like LL purposely withheld information because they had rather let me waste a lot of money than admit their shortcomings.

    Have you looked at the system recommendations? They aren’t exactly encouraging people to splurge on extravagant  computer hardware.

  9. 39 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said:

    No doubt. The reason it comes up is that certain US (and Canadian) factions are now holding up an imaginary version of Sweden to justify turning the taps on full and dancing in the streets with strangers. Or something like that. It really is a death cult, complete with semi-automatic long guns. Dr. Strangelove in slo-mo.

    Now they want to emulate Sweden. I guess no one told them the key for that plan to work, they have to act like adults.

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  10. 14 hours ago, Ardy Lay said:

    SL Names are NEVER made available for use by anyone other than the person that has already used it.  I am aware of no exceptions to this and we have been told there will be no exceptions.

    I found a loophole and created an account with a username identical to one that had already been used. About ten years ago I made an account with a username objectionable enough that LL made me change it. Fast forward to yesterday and I was poking around registration portals to see if I could get an account with one of the new usernames and not pay for it. No luck, but I did type in that objectionable name for the lulz and to my surprise, it was available. And I was able to make an account using it. So if you had a "Resident" account that had a name change prior to the new system going in place (which is probably almost no one) it's possible to re-use a username.

    I also can't believe that word isn't blocked at signup.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Derarude Placebo said:

    I installed SL Viewer on Mac OS X, but it won't let me open it! Something about being unable to check for malicious software. What's up with that?! Can anyone help me?

    Right click or ctrl-click on it and open it. Or go to System Preferences, Security & Privacy and click "Open Anyway". 

  12. On 4/14/2020 at 12:49 PM, Kingytheking said:

    I'd just like to know if I can even run SL on this laptop. Or am I able to update the graphic card driver to a better one? 

    The best drivers for that chipset are the Windows 7 drivers, Intel didn't make Windows 10 drivers for it. In my experience, you can install the Windows 7 drivers on 10, but it still won't run SL. Even if you can load the drivers and get SL to run, it's going to be so bad on that computer you'll wish you hadn't.

  13. 14 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

    I know exactly how you feel. When I first created my name in 2008, I thought . . . choose something interesting, distinctive . . . with a different kind of "look" and a certain exoticism about it.

    Imagine my utter horror when, later, I googled "Scylla" and found images like this:

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    Utter horror is Googling your name expecting to find that sort of thing and getting a bunch of pictures of Dog the Bounty Hunter's kid. 🤮

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